![]() ![]() “That is what storytelling is: knowing how to put a sentence together and telling really excellent lies,” she said. Along with being a reader, Stone told the audience she was a “compulsive liar” as a child, a combination that signals a future as a storyteller, she said. “We don’t do adolescent temperatures in Georgia,” she joked. ![]() The Atlanta native, who engaged her audience throughout the program, drew laughs early with her comments on the far cooler Mahoning Valley climate. ![]() “For me, the most important thing is you don’t experience what I did when I was in high school.” “I write my books for you,” she told the students. During her presentation, she covered topics ranging from her published and upcoming works to the mechanics of writing. ![]() It was one of two presentations by Stone as part of the Public Library’s Black History Month programming, her second taking place in the afternoon at the Campbell high School auditorium.ĭuring the program, which lasted about 80 minutes, Stone offered brief remarks but mostly fielded questions from the audience in the branch’s large meeting room. Stone, whose works include New York Times bestsellers “Dear Martin” and “Odd One Out,” addressed an audience of 75 students and members of the general public Tuesday at the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County’s Newport Library. ![]()
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